Greg.K
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Oh Chewie, porgs are friends not food.
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So Snoke is dead and we get zero details on his backstory? Weird!
This is exactly what I liked about THE LAST JEDI. It had humor, yes. But IMHO it took all of Abram's contrived baggage from TFA and literally threw it over a cliff. For example, Johnson marginalized Maz, killed the impotent Phasma, and called Kylo Ren's mask exactly what it was: stupid. I could go on and on. Johnson could have been really hamstrung by all the derivative dumbness in TFA. Yet brilliantly he either threw it over a cliff, minimized it or got rid of it altogether. And I'm so glad. THE LAST JEDI is a movie that will stand up to repeated viewings without me asking why characters are doing jaw droppingly dumb things to service a contrived plot.One of my favorite moments was when Luke finally took the lightsaber from Rey (we've been waiting 2 year for it!), he just chucked it off the cliff.
So......I guess you didn’t really like The Force Awakens??This is exactly what I liked about THE LAST JEDI. It had humor, yes. But IMHO it took all of Abram's contrived baggage from TFA and literally threw it over a cliff. For example, Johnson marginalized Maz, killed the impotent Phasma, and called Kylo Ren's mask exactly what it was: stupid. I could go on and on. Johnson could have been really hamstrung by all the derivative dumbness in TFA. Yet brilliantly he either threw it over a cliff, minimized it or got rid of it altogether. And I'm so glad. THE LAST JEDI is a movie that will stand up to repeated viewings without me asking why characters are doing jaw droppingly dumb things to service a contrived plot.
THE LAST JEDI was only the middle part but Johnson gave it the feel of an ending for me: Snoke gone, Luke gone, hope in youth, etc. I can see why Kennedy gave Johnson the keys to the car, so to speak.
"Expertly crafted was this movie," as Yoda might say. To see Frank Oz's Yoda together with Luke again brought tears to my eyes, I'm not embarrassed to admit.
That's the funny thing. There's parts of TFA I really like. But there's parts where characters do things that make no sense. I liked TFA a lot more before seeing TLJ, which really exposed how contrived TFA is, in my opinion.So......I guess you didn’t really like The Force Awakens??
I was shocked to see Yoda in that scene. He looked.....weird. Not that he’s a puppet again. He looked strangely not like Yoda. Kinda squat, and dare I say...fat?? Didn’t know Force ghosts could overeat.
Fair enough, except it's hard to give Abrams the benefit of the doubt, since the same contrived strains appear in virtually all his movies. IMO it just shows that he's not a very rational thinker--he's mostly about flash designed to hypnotize audiences. And he does it very, very well. Usually it's only after I get home with an Abrams Blu-ray that I start to see all the contrived cracks.But the blame should be on the three writers, not just JJ.
It's like when you name a chicken! You can't eat it anymore!Oh Chewie, porgs are friends not food.
Also interesting to note he flies the Milleium Falcon, that once did the Kessel run in 16 parsecs or whatever, but apparently doesn't even have a decent stove, so he is cooking his meal on an open fire outside.Oh Chewie, porgs are friends not food.
The good thing is that this movie didn't end on a cliffhanger so they can pick up some time later and say Leia died in that time.Also to be brutally honest...
I think they should have ended Carrie Fisher where she was originally thought to have died. It was a perfect and emotionally fitting out (better than another space Jesus allegory to be sure). I don't think she contributed anything essential to the plot after that. And obviously it would have solved a lot of problems.
If Force ghosts can sit down for some reason (are their ghost legs tired?), I guess they could eat for some reason too.I was shocked to see Yoda in that scene. He looked.....weird. Not that he’s a puppet again. He looked strangely not like Yoda. Kinda squat, and dare I say...fat?? Didn’t know Force ghosts could overeat.